I urge anyone interested in the voice and or just terrific music to try to attend one of Mirror Visions’ concerts.
Book Review: “Winter” — A Luminous Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
This novel about Thomas Hardy becomes not only the story of an odd triangle, but also a meditation on the nature of art.
Book Review: “The Big Green Tent” — Lives Lived Without Trust, Memorably Conveyed
We root for all of the ordinary folk who survived — and are still surviving even now — one of the bleakest and saddest periods in Russia’s history.
Fuse Book Review: Living With the Spenders—Surviving an Odd Childhood
One must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.
Book Review: “Death by Water” — Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed
Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.
Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy
Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
Book Review: Two From Andreï Makine — A Matter of Trust
Makine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.
Book Review: The Resilient Wisdom of Tony Judt – For the Ages
Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
Book Review: Admiring Anne Enright’s “The Green Road”
Anne Enright’s prose, especially when she is firmly rooted in Ireland, sings; she has the ability to get the details both of setting and character, and a wonderful ear.
Film Review: “Archie’s Betty” — A Charming Documentary about Comic Book Americana
Here is a terrific documentary that will appeal to people who grew up in the mid-20th century and also their children and grandchildren.